Playing Nine Men’s Morris with the Humanoid Robot Nao
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چکیده
Playing games is an important aspect in human life in order to develop skills or in terms of entertainment. Games also play a major role in research such as Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In this paper we present an approach to enable the humanoid robot Nao to play a board game against a human opponent. We discuss the challenges that arise by the task of playing a board game with a humanoid robot, provide solutions for the Nao, and, introduce our proof-ofconcept implementation for the board game Nine Men’s Morris. Finally, we will present a first experimental evaluation of the approach. The main contribution of this paper is the integration of various techniques into one real robot system, enabling it to manage a complex task such as playing a board game.
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